Russian Fighter Plane Buzzed US Warship in Black Sea

A Russian SU-24 Fencer fighter jet made multiple “close-range low-altitude” passes at the USS Donald Cook earlier today, in a move the Pentagon dubbed a deliberate provocation. Russia has not attempted to explain the incident.

Pentagon officials said the plane refused all attempts at radio contact, but did not appear to be armed with any bombs, suggesting a SU-24MR or SU-24MP, both reconnaissance planes. They said a second Fencer was with the plane initially but kept its distance.

Since the Russian annexation of Crimea, the US has been keen to send warships to the Black Sea, though the individual ships don’t pose a serious challenge to Russian naval control of the region. The real danger, rather, is that an incident like today’s overflights could provoke a clash between the US and Russia.

I modestly propose that it be turned into an amusement park in Anaheim, California. The Obama regimists can come, at no cost, and get the chance to be strapped to the destroyer's missiles and fired down the Pacific Test Range.

Lets' reverse the story. Imagine a Russian naval ship, in the Gulf of Mexico, not to far off the coast of Texas and thousands of miles from Russian shores. Now imagine a USA plane "buzzing" said ship and Russia calling it a "provocation".